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1. Download Origins of Slavery Read and learn some facts about slavery. Choose the most important ones.


2. Obtain more information by downloading Slave Trade


3. Abraham Lincoln was a relevant figure concerning slavery in U.S.A. Download A. Lincoln Profile A. Lincoln and Slavery .Take some notes for your proyect.


4. Now look at the slides on the America Civil War.







5. Watch a trailer from a 1962 film “ The intruder” which shows that,though slavery had been abolished, white American in the Southern States were still prejudiced against black people.

Watch Adam Cramer as he makes his speech and pay attention to his body language and what it is emphasising at different stages of the speech



Now listen again and fill in the missing words where you see the numbers.


I’ll tell you something now: it may be hot tonight but it’s (1) for a whole lot of people. This here little town’s going to burn. Well I mean it’s going to burn the (2) of the country and put forth a light that everyone and (3) ‘s going to see and feel. This town. I’m talking about Caxton.
People, something happened today. Ten negroes went into the Caxton High School and sat with the white children there. Nobody stopped them. (4) . And you know what they’re saying, that means, they’re saying, that you all don’t give a darn whether the whites mix with the blacks because you didn’t fight against it. Well., I say, how can someone fight against what he doesn’t see. They kept the facts away from you. They (5) every one of you. They filled your heads with filthy lies and keep you (6) so that when you finally do wake up … why, we’re sorry but it’s too late!
Now I’m associated with the Patrick Henry Society, which is an organisation dedicated to giving the people the truth. What I’m going to tell you is going to make your (7) because I’m going to show you that the way the country’s going to go depends entirely (8) on you.
Now you all know that there was peace and quiet in the South before the NAACP starts stirring up trouble but what you don’t know is that this so-called advancement of coloured people is now, (9) nothing but a Communist front headed by a Jew who hates America, and doesn’t make any bones about it either. Well, the Commies didn’t waste a second. They knew only too well, friends, that the quickest way to (10) a country is to mongrolise it, so they poured all the millions of dollars the Jews could get for them into this one thing: (11) . They went to the courts. Now Judge Silver, who is a Jew, and is known to have leftist leanings.
( McDaniel shouts out “Who says so?” Cramer answers: “The record says so. Look it up.”)
Abraham Silver, for one thing, belongs to the Quillum Pen Society.
(McDaniel asks: “Why, Mr Cramer?”
Why? Because I’m an American, sir, and I love my country. And I’m willing to give my life if that were necessary, to see that my country stays (12), and (13).




6. Watch this video about slavery in the mothern world.



7. Download Modern Slavery
a) Read about " Human Rights "
b) Go to activity 3 and read about " Modern Day Slavery ".
c) Now we will do activity 4 in groups and each student will play a different role.
d) Go to sheet 3 : " Stories of Moden Slavery ". Choose a story and write a summary .